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Mediawiki v1.5.alpha1 Release Notes

    • (bug 73) Category sort key is set to file name when adding category to file description from upload page (previously it would be set to "Special:Upload", causing problems with category paging)
    • (bug 419) The contents of the navigation toolbar are now editable through the MediaWiki namespace on the MediaWiki:navbar page.
    • (bug 498) The Views heading in MonoBook.php is now localizable
    • (bug 898) The wiki can now do advanced sanity check on uploaded files including virus checks using external programs.
    • (bug 1692) Fix margin on unwatch tab
    • ⚡️ (bug 1906) Generalize project namespace for Latin localization, update namespaces
    • (bug 1975) The name for Limburgish (li) changed from "Lèmburgs" to "Limburgs
    • (bug 2019) Wrapped the output of Special:Version in in order to preserve the correct flow of text on RTL wikis.
    • 🛠 (bug 2067) Fixed crash on empty quoted HTML attribute
    • (bug 2075) Corrected namespace definitions in Tamil localization
    • 🚧 (bug 2079) Removed links to Special:Maintenance from movepagetext message
    • (bug 2094) Multiple use of a template produced wrong results in some cases
    • 🛠 (bug 2095) Triple-closing-bracket thing partly fixed
    • (bug 2110) "noarticletext" should not display on Image page for "sharedupload" media
    • (bug 2150) Fix tab indexes on edit form
    • (bug 2152) Add missing bgcolor to attribute whitelist for and
    • (bug 2176) Section edit 'show changes' button works correctly now
    • ✅ (bug 2178) Use temp dir from environment in parser tests
    • (bug 2217) Negative ISO years were incorrectly converted to BC notation
    • (bug 2234) allow special chars in database passwords during install
    • 🗄 Deprecated the {{msg:template}} syntax for referring to templates, {{msg: is now the wikisyntax representation of wfMsgForContent()
    • 🛠 Fix for reading incorrectly re-gzipped HistoryBlob entries
    • HistoryBlobStub: the last-used HistoryBlob is kept open to speed up multiple-revision pulls
    • ➕ Add $wgLegacySchemaConversion update-time option to reduce amount of copying during the schema upgrade: creates HistoryBlobCurStub reference records in text instead of copying all the cur_text fields. Requires that the cur table be left in place until/unless such fields are migrated into the main text store.
    • Special:Export now includes page, revision, and user id numbers by default (previously this was disabled for no particular reason)
    • dumpBackup.php can dump the full database to Export XML, with current revisions only or complete histories.
    • The group table was renamed to groups because "group" is a reserved word in SQL which caused some inconveniances.
    • 🆕 New fileicons for c, cpp, deb, dvi, exe, h, html, iso, java, mid, mov, o, ogg, pdf, ps, rm, rpm, tar, tex, ttf and txt files based on the KDE crystalsvg theme.
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug in Special:Newimages that made it impossible to search for '0'
    • ➕ Added language variant support for Icelandic, now supports "Íslenzka"
    • The #p-nav id in MonoBook is now #p-navigation
    • Putting $4 in msg:userstatstext will now give the percentage of admnistrators out of normal users.
    • 🔗 links and brokenlinks tables merged to pagelinks; this will reduce pain dealing with moves and deletes of widely-linked pages.
    • ➕ Add validate table and val_ip column through the updater.
    • 🚚 Simple rate limiter for edits and page moves; set $wgRateLimits (somewhat experimental; currently needs memcached)
    • (bug 2262) Hide math preferences when TeX is not enabled
    • (bug 2267) Don't generate thumbnail at the same size as the source image.
    • 🛠 Fix rebuildtextindex.inc for new schema
    • ✂ Remove linkscc table code, no longer used.
    • (bug 2271) Use faster text-only link replacement in image alt text instead of rerunning expensive link lookup and HTML generation.
    • 🏗 Only build the HTML attribute whitelist tree once.
    • Replace wfMungeToUtf8 and do_html_entity_decode with a single function that does both numeric and named chars: Sanitizer::decodeCharReferences
    • ✂ Removed some obsolete UTF-8 converter functions
    • 🛠 Fix function comment in debug dump of SQL statements
    • ⚡️ (bug 2275) Update search index more or less right on page move
    • 🚚 (bug 2053) Move comment whitespace trimming from edit page to save; leaves the whitespace from the section comment there on preview.
    • (bug 2274) Respect stub threshold in category page list
    • (bug 2173) Fatal error when removing an article with an empty title from the watchlist
    • ✂ Removed -f parameter from mail() usage, likely to cause failures and bounces.
    • 🛠 (bug 2130) Fixed interwiki links with fragments
    • 📜 (bug 684) Accept an attribute parameter array on parser hook tags
    • 🔌 (bug 814) Integrate AuthPlugin changes to support Ryan Lane's external LDAP authentication plugin
    • (bug 2034) Armor HTML attributes against template inclusion and links munging